“Wow I loved that video. On the east coast around the north of England you can have hours of harmless fun rock hounding and finding fossils. It is staggering to think of the millions upon millions of years all this has taken.” @ David Clayton

• 100% recognize the effort.

• Look forward to more insights about the UK – on any topic.

• Understanding that you do not necessarily speak for all England/ Wales/ Scotland/ N. Ireland citizens.

Not quite true, they did not just speak to each other in Navajo. They used a non-standard, allusive and sort of “inside-jokey” Navajo that they made up, partly because of security and partly because Navajo didn’t have words for things like submarines. They’d use Navajo words to stand for numbers and letters to pass encrypted English messages.

The Japanese actually captured a Navajo who was himself unable to understand the code talkers, having never been trained in code talk.

When a Navajo code talker received a message, what he heard was a string of seemingly unrelated Navajo words. The code talker first had to translate each Navajo word into its English equivalent. Then he used only the first letter of the English equivalent in spelling an English word. Thus, the Navajo words “wol-la-chee” (ant), “be-la-sana” (apple) and “tse-nill” (axe) all stood for the letter “a.” One way to say the word “Navy” in Navajo code would be “tsah (needle) wol-la-chee (ant) ah-keh-di- glini (victor) tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca).”

It was also not just Navajo, and not just World War II. Other native languages were used starting in WWI. Other nations with obscure languages have done the same.

Someone at the Department of Defense (or more likely some set of someones) apparently interpreted President Trump’s executive order on DEI as meaning that it would be improper to refer to the Navajo Code Talkers as…Navajos, and at least 10 articles mentioning the Code Talkers have been removed from DoD websites.

Malicious compliance, arrant stupidity, robotic bureaucratic behavior..or all three.., but in any case I think it is really, really bad.

More here:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/73544.html

Two intractable barriers to success that are outside the administration’s control– the long term nature of moving an economy or the ‘four year problem’ and Congress’ parochial nature of ‘bringing home the bacon’ running counter to the goal of reducing the deficit.

Will the administration succeed, given the evil forces allied against them? Pray for their protection.

Scott Bessent | All-In in DC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSma9suyp24

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Nice to see you get down with the Firesign side of yourself!

Their output got thinner after Bozos, but still had some superb peaks

“The Giant Rat of Sumatra” (1974)
“Everything You Know is Wrong” (1974)
“Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death” (1998)
“The Bride of Firesign” (2001)

I’m a richer man for having known the Firesign Theatre. Only David Ossman and Philip Proctor remain.

RIP Phil Austin and Peter Bergman

“The Democrats on the NRCC’s target list include Reps. Josh Harder (9th District), Adam Gray (13th), George Whitesides (27th), Derek Tran (45th), and Dave Min (47th) of California; Darren Soto (9th) and Jared Moskowitz (23rd) of Florida; Frank Mrvan (1st) of Indiana, Jared Golden (2nd) of Maine; Kristen McDonald Rivet (8th) of Michigan; Don Davis (1st) of North Carolina; Chris Pappas (1st) of New Hampshire; Nellie Pou (9th) of New Jersey; and Gabe Vasquez (2nd) of New Mexico.”

this was the reason for the Royal Navy if fact Aden was the coaling station for the Navy, between Bombay and Cairo, as the Brits retreated from the former spot, in 1967, as they had done with India some 20 years later,

now the Yam have deep grievances with the Kingdom, the 1934 brief skirmish that stole four provinces in their north, which in retrospect, they might want to give back, one of them being Asir, but their gripes with the Jews is harder to understand, except for the influence of the Iranian regime,

No legacy media report is saying to whom it was released or in what manner or has a link to the original. No attempt at basic journalism, just acting as megaphones.

I’m not aware of any similar statements by Roberts when Dems called for the impeachment of judges who rule the “wrong” way:

The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.

Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

9:32 AM · Jul 1, 2024